WEBVTT - How Replacing Toilets Work

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to brain Stuff from how stuff works dot com

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<v Speaker 1>where smart Happens. Hi Am Marshall Brain with today's question,

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<v Speaker 1>why are they replacing all of the toilets in this

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<v Speaker 1>apartment complex? It's true many cities have conducted a massive

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<v Speaker 1>drive to replace older toilets with new water saving models.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's why. A family of four can consume something like

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<v Speaker 1>three four hundred gallons of water per day on things

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<v Speaker 1>like bathing, cooking, drinking, laundry, and dishwashing. Old toilets use

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<v Speaker 1>about five gallons or twenty leaders per flush. When you

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<v Speaker 1>consider that a normal person flushes a toilet seven or

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<v Speaker 1>so times a day, you can see that a family

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<v Speaker 1>of four consumes more than a hundred and forty gallons

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<v Speaker 1>of water per day flushing alone. Depending on the article

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<v Speaker 1>you're reading, the water consumption of toilets represents between thirty

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<v Speaker 1>fifty percent of the water consumed by a household each day.

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<v Speaker 1>The new toilets installed in your apartment use one point

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<v Speaker 1>six gallons or six leaders per flush. If you replace

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<v Speaker 1>those five gallon per flush toilets with these new one

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<v Speaker 1>point six gallon per flush toilets, you save a huge

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<v Speaker 1>amount of water. Something like a hundred gallons per day

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<v Speaker 1>per household for a city. A big reduction like that

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<v Speaker 1>means that you can delay the construction of new reservoirs

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<v Speaker 1>and new sewage treatment plants. That's a huge incentive to

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<v Speaker 1>replace all the old toilets. For more on this and

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